--- title: "Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/announcing-the-regulator-logo-contest.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/announcing-the-regulator-logo-contest.html" published: "2005-06-02T14:27:00" updated: "2005-06-02T14:27:00" tags: ["Cool Tools", "Regex"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "All details on this and more that you wanted to know: /logocontest Feel creative? Got Illustrator or Photoshop? Feel like donating back to the community? Wanna free cool .NET component? If you answered \"yes\", read on.…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest By Roy Osherove June 2, 2005 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex) **Historical article** · Originally published June 2, 2005; technical details may be outdated. All details on this and more that you wanted to know: [/logocontest](https://osherove.com/logocontest)  Feel creative? Got Illustrator or Photoshop? Feel like donating back to the community? Wanna free cool .NET component? If you answered "yes", read on. If not, **you're weird** (well, except for the illustrator or photohop part,. many people don't have that.) _What's_ [_The Regulator_](https://osherove.com/)_?_  [_The Regulator_](https://osherove.com/) _is a free regular expression testing and creation tool for developers. It's been a while since it was last updated, but there's a new version coming. In fact, this version is going to go live at Tech-Ed Europe where it will be announced and reviewed at Roy Osherove's Talk on Regular Expressions with Microsoft .NET._ _For the new version, which contains many new enhancements both to usability and functionality, The Regulator needs your help. **The Regulator needs a brand spanking new Logo** to go along it's splash screen, it's website and program and related documents icons._ _Since this is a freeware program (for which much of the source code is already online), **this is your chance to influence and support the effort**. If you have graphical skills, we want you to_ [_submit your ideas_](https://osherove.com/Default.aspx?tabid=90) _in the form of raw graphical files (illustrator or photoshop). The ideas we like the most will be used in the real application with due credits to the creators._ You won't leave empty handed if we choose your graphics. You'll get a free license to a great .NET component for syntax highlighting which will be used in the upcoming version: [SyntaxEditor 3.0](http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/SyntaxEditor/Default.aspx) from Actipro Software: [http://www.actiprosoftware.com](http://www.actiprosoftware.com/)  **Actipro SyntaxEditor** is a powerful editing control for .NET Windows Forms. It syntax highlights text and provides a number of state-of-the-art features for code editing such as multi-language support, a regex parsing engine, code outlining, undo/redo, split views, IntelliPrompt, and much more. ## More in Cool Tools [All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) - Jun 19, 2005 ### [LibCheck: List breaking changes between assembly versions](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/19/libcheck-list-breaking-changes-between-assembly-versions.html) - Jun 17, 2005 ### [Flickr! - get ready for Flippr! (and a new Israeli dev blogger)](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/17/flickr-get-ready-for-flippr-and-a-new-israeli-dev-blogger.html) - Jun 2, 2005 ### [Oracle Tools for VS.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/oracle-tools-for-vsnet.html) - Jun 2, 2005 ### [Ajax.NET - I'm impressed!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/ajaxnet-im-impressed.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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